Incidental Intelligence

Incidental Intelligence: The Commodore Hotel offers, for eighty cents, a luncheon consisting of soup, fruit compote, cottage-cheese sandwich on whole wheat, and chiffonade salad. It's listed on the menu as the War and Health Combination.

Under the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms, and chambers.

As the years passed, Tom grew more entrenched in his homelessness. He was absorbed in lofty fantasies and private missions, aware of the basest necessities and the most transcendent abstractions, and almost nothing in between.